"Season 2, while not having quite as big an impact, has still been pretty top notch, so here's hoping the quality of the game does not dilute any further with the third season."I feel like Season 2 is a little more impacting than Season 1, which obviously not as original. Characters still made tough decisions and faced their fears. Villains still made serious threats of murder, though the villain in Season 2 is far more despicable. Protagonists still had heart-wrenching moments of pain and/or exhaustion, though Season 2 made you act through the pain.

Is a Season 3 necessary? No. But hey, the series hasn't really gotten stale yet - at least, not as much as The Wolf Among Us.

I do hope we're not playing as Clementine for Series 3. I feel like her character arc is ending plus the writers could do with a fresh start. I've been disappointed by Series 2 for a number of reasons (not fleshing out characters, assuming we'll like characters, choices not mattering as much) and most of the problems I've had are due to writing and pacing of the episodes. The Wolf Among us has suffered too but the same extent. A new character and a fresh start would help I think. It depends if they can finish the character arc for Clementine.

My level of enthusiasm depends a lot on how much deeper the darkness induced apathy of season 2 becomes. XD I'm enjoying the games well enough, I was even a stalwart supporter of season 2, but after episode 4

I'm kinda just hanging on to the end of season 2 out of macabre fascination and interest in Kenny's byronic descent into madness. I don't mind unhappy endings or dark stories, but you have to give your characters/audience SOMETHING, man. XDD

I mean, I like the Walking Dead, but Season 2 is starting to get really lazy; the last episode was particularly bad in terms of letting me feel like I have a choice which matters. It will depend on how the last episode goes.

That said, I think I won't be pre-ordering Season 3, but waiting for the box set. I'm starting to not like the episodic way of releasing games, partly because Telltale can't stick to their own schedule and don't give any real warning of when the next episode comes out, and I don't have time to keep checking for it.